Holyhead, Anglesey. Open Daily. Free Admission.

Details

Accessibility:

Please contact the Town Council to discuss your specific requirements.

Brief description:

Largest town on Isle of Anglesey, best known for its Ferry Port with Ireland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holyhead

"Holyhead (/ˈhəʊliˈhɛd/,/ˌhɒliˈhɛd/;[3][4] Welsh: Caergybi [kɑːɨrˈɡəbi], "Cybi's fort") is the largest town and a community in the county of Isle of Anglesey, Wales, with a population of 13,659 at the 2011 census.[1] Holyhead is on Holy Island, bounded by the Irish Sea to the north, and is separated from Anglesey island by the narrow Cymyran Strait and was originally connected to Anglesey via the Four Mile Bridge.[5]

In the mid-19th century, Lord Stanley, a local philanthropist, funded the building of a larger causeway,[6] known locally as "The Cobb", it now carries the A5 and the railway line. The A55 dual carriageway runs parallel to the Cobb on a modern causeway.[7]

The town houses the Port of Holyhead, a major Irish Sea port for connections towards Ireland.[8] 

Until September 2009, Holyhead's main industry was the massive aluminium smelter on the outskirts of the town, operated by Anglesey Aluminium, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto. A large jetty in the harbour received ships from Jamaica and Australia, and their cargoes of alumina were transported on a rope-driven conveyor belt running underneath the town to the plant. The jetty is now available to dock visiting cruise ships.[21]

The plant relied for its electricity supply on Wylfa nuclear power station, near Cemaes Bay. However, Wylfa was reaching the end of its life and had permission to generate only until 2012.[22] On 18 October 2010, the British government announced that Wylfa was one of the eight sites it considered suitable for future nuclear power stations.[23]

Holyhead Port is a major employer, most of the jobs being linked to ferry services to the Republic of Ireland operated by Stena and Irish Ferries. Other significant industrial/transport sector employers in Holyhead include Holyhead Boatyard, Gwynedd Shipping and Eaton Electrical, with the last of these having seen many job losses in 2009.[24]

Until the end of 2020 the port, which employs 250 (in 2021), was the second busiest roll-on roll-off port in the UK after Dover with around 450,000 lorries taking ferries to Dublin. Following the Brexit withdrawal agreement, freight traffic from Ireland fell by 50% in January 2021.[25]"

Address:

Holyhead, Anglesey LL65 1HN

Email:

info@holyheadtowncouncil.com

Phone:

Town Council: 01407 764608

Website:

https://www.holyhead.org/ and www.holyheadtowncouncil.com

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65044061

Directions:

The town can be found at the Western end of Anglesey at the end of the A55 or A5 main roads across the Isle.

OS SH246828

Opening Times:

Daily

Transport:

The town has a train station and a bus service which operates throughout the Isle.

"Holyhead is the terminus of the North Wales Coast Line and is currently served by Avanti West Coast and Transport for Wales services. Avanti West Coast runs direct trains to London Euston and Transport for Wales operate direct trains to Cardiff and Birmingham International via Wrexham and Shrewsbury, and Manchester Piccadilly via Warrington. The rail and ferry terminals are connected (for pedestrians and cyclists) to the town centre by The Celtic Gateway bridge.[20] "

For more travel information go to www.traveline.info or call 0800 46 40 000

Amenities:

All amenities catered for.

RADAR operated Disability Toilets can be found at the following locations

• Breakwater Park (Summer)
• Newry Beach
• Porth Dafarch (Summer)
• South Stack (Summer)
• Swift Square
• Holyhead Ferry Terminal (Terminal hrs) 

Public Toilets can be found at Breakwater Park, Newry Beach and Swift Square Car Park.